The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-08-11
AFFAIRS If fHE CiPiTiI.
IMPROVEMENTS ON ALABAMA
AND MISSISSIPPI RIVERS.
Esumates for Next Yesr-Proposals
for the Sale OF United states
Bonds Opened.

'smrel, United 8 stes Engineer, sub.
ats the following estimates for sx-
enditures upon river and harbor
In bis district next |
ear: Warrior river, Alabama, $685..
90; Tombigbee river, Alabama and
Mississippi, below Vienna, sl2 800;
Black Warrior, 500, COO; Old Toner
rsek, Mississippi, $1,000; Noxubee
liver, Mississippi, $4,000; Psscsgoula
liver, Mississippi, SIS, 0CO; Pearl river,
betwsen Edinbure and
$50 900; Pearl river, Missis.
,ippi, below Jackson, $50, 1000; barbor
1T Biloxi bay, Mississippi, Si37 500;
Mobile hsrbor, $4,000. OF the Mo.
bile hsrbor, he says the i'm provemepts
began In 1927, there being then 81
feet OF water through Choctaw pass.
There has eince been expended by the
general government 81, $4,000. A IL
feet channel has been obtained from
the city to the sea. IIi', however,
too nsrrow, and should be widened
by at least 100 feet.
VIC oSsIs WATERWAYS.
Capt. w. [. Marshsll, United States.
Engineer, recommends an Hppropha
ton Of f35, 900 for next years sxgead-
iture upon improvements In the har-
Dor Of Wsukegon, ILL.,; $4,000 for
Kenosha harbof, Wisconsin; $4,000
for Racine, Wis bsrbor; $32 0lO for
Milwaukee,; 500, 600 for naroor OF
refuge at Milwaukee Bay, and $780,
600 for the improvement of the Fox
and Wisconsin rivers, WiPc)nsi or
the Milwaukee harbor he says the
depth OF water at the entrance be.
tween the piers has deterio'ated to
seventeen feet aud dredging will bs
neCe ,sgry next season TO restore IL to
its proposed depth OF eighteen feet.
The funds asked for ars to be appl ed
TO cutting down and rebuilding the
supereiructuTe over the outer section
Of the south piers; 10 the pre- ection Of
this work by guard piles and bulk
head iimbers at the ends OF the piers ;
TO repairing the Pile prote ction to the
stone supers,ructure OF the inner sec.
ton OF the north pier, and To dredpi q z
ont the harbor entrspce. o! the L 4
river he says that the mills during The
period OF low wafer take more than
the surplus water from the p iols above
the Appleton and Msnaeha dams, thus
reducing the levels Of Like Winnie.
bago aud Little Lake Butte De,
Mortes, making navigation precsriou.
The evil, be says, 10 increasing, and Il
It cannot be checked the improve
ments OF the river should not continue
MINER nURDKRRD.
vics Consul Mitchell, at Pedra,
Negrsr, Mexico, reports 10 the Stat,
Department, under date II July 23d
that James II. Duvsl, q citizen Of tn,
United States, aad q native Of Mobile
who has ben residing In Sants Rosa
STATE OF Coahuila, for several yesrs
engaged 10 mining, was murdere,
July ID. Hs had started for tn,
OsdIsl mines, with $3.50 to pay hi
employees, and when ABOUT two mile
from the mine was shot through tn,
head. Tbs authorities bad aTTeste,
several persons on suspicion.
SAILS oP BONDS.
secretary Fairchild opened propo
sals ut noon today for the sale OF u ~
cd sta'es a per cent. b lpds Il 1850
under the terms of Treasury crcu q
Of August 81. Proposals were reoei 20
% follows: Harvey FIX & Sons, Ne,
Y rk. 10000 common bonds an,
81, 10000 registered bonds each n
SllOt; R1bt. \. Graham, New York
$500, % registered bonda aud $4,000
couplD h inds a. Sill; Ksssler 4 20
OF New Y rk, Fl 900 coupon bond
stfl.l0i Ftst National Bank OF N 4
Y'tt, tl.4 60. 900 registered bonds )
81 4s 10; James Tsloott. New Yoil
S25, 900 coup u bonds at xl.l2, wit
acc us q interest 10 June 1. 1881
Diexsl, Morgan a Co, $4,000 resi
iared bonds ~ 81 10 % l01; WiliaI
F>llos', Morgan & 90, Nes Yorl
$500 900 coupon hoods At 81. l0t; tn
SUD ilk Savings B,nr Of Boston, 81
go 600 register d bonds Ut 81 10; Al
drew Leepef OF Ohiil cothc, Mo %. u
registered bonds q, fi.l0 with in,ere
% Sept. moer l, 1887. The tot
amount 81 bonds Offered was IS 49,
900, OF which 81, 1855 900 are registers
The Secretary tnis afternoon acceptt
the offer OF the Snffjlk Savings Bar
Of Boston. All the other propose
were rejected, as the rates were n,
considered favorable.
PRODUCTS AND PRICES OF WHEAT.
J.R Dodge, sta,istician OF the ID
par ment Of Agricullui G, In an ariic
eriillsd Products aud Prices
! Wheat" which will DO published vii
the departments August report, say
"The official record Of imports
wheat into the United Kingdom I
! the fpt half OF the p esent ye
/. shows n large increase In the propc
A ton iurnishsd by the United Stat
6s per cent? against "a p
;, cant. IN ths fret elk mont
Z Of 1885 aud 1885. Counting DO
|, 40 v heat tho proportion 10 1915 p
. | cent, pgaln,t 90 8 In q similar periS
=, Of 1859 and eos IN 1885. There 10
great reduction In receipts from X 4
j. sis, a decrease from India OF 20 .
!. cent. "a compared with the drst HI
A Il lest year aud q decrease from A,
! trails. The quantities OF whoat Il
n ported from January b. June Incl
= civ with value and average p'ico .
u pr, ssed In the measures OF this cou
!, tty, are 90 folows:
Va
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